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PDF Engine

01-09-2008, 03:18 PM

Hello, we PDF our pages using Adobe Distiller v8.0, which doesn't give any problems, But our commercial Clients perhaps is not using Adobe Distiller. They use IDCS2 to create pages and use PDF export Presets to export to PDF. The other day, I tried finding Distiller in their application folder (Mac) but could not find any.

What PDF engine could they be using? I am trying to investigate why most of the images are missing when I import PDF onto an IDCS3 Document.

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If they are using INDD CS2 to make their PDFs by exporting, I believe that process involves using the PDF Library (native PDF, no intermediate postscript) that is installed with InDesign thus not really using Distiller. Someone correct me if I am wrong here.

As another respondent said, there is nothing wrong with exporting to PDF directly out of InDesign. We do it all the time.

As for why images aren't embedded, the only thing I can think of is that their export preset isn't configured correctly (or their images were marked as "non-printing"?).

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yes, i have done some reading, and doing the export to PDF from IDCS2 uses the same PDF engine as the distiller has. So it would be fine to use. The client wouldn't need an standalone distiller.

As far as images loss. I am still having problems. When you import their PDF, you will see all the components (images) then when you use separation preview, then you will see images disappear!. It will print to rip that way. Thankfully, I still have CS to use